Breanne A. Kirsch: Games in Libraries : Essays on Using Play to Connect and Instruct

Games in Libraries : Essays on Using Play to Connect and Instruct


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Librarians are beginning to see the importance of game based learning and incorporating games into library services to increase patron engagement and interaction. This book is written for librarians interested in using games to improve patron or student knowledge of library services and decrease patron anxiety of the library. This book provides practical suggestions and methods of incorporating games or game elements into library services focusing on outreach and instruction. This essay collection discusses innovative uses of games in libraries and focuses on the game making process. The contributors of this book are all interested in games and how they can be used for game-based learning or other library purposes, such as outreach. A variety of game usage across different types of libraries is considered. The purpose of this book is to bring together distinctive uses of games in libraries or educational institutions and share these ideas with others to inspire the making and use of games by other librarians and educators.

As computers become a larger part of our daily lives both at work and at home, complaints of painful wrists, sore shoulders, stiff necks, and blurry vision associated with computer use continue to soar. ""Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge..."" This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot from a mundane, provincial past, she's come to New York to look for a life she can't define, except as a burning drive to become someone, to belong somewhere. After she stumbles into a coveted job at a renowned Union Square restaurant, we spend the year with her as she learns the chaotic, punishing, privileged life of a "backwaiter," on duty "and"off. Her appetites for food, wine, knowledge, and every kind of experience are awakened. And she's pulled into the magnetic thrall of two other servers a handsome bartender she falls hard for, and an older woman she latches Games in Libraries : Essays on Using Play to Connect and Instruct ebook pdf onto with an orphan's ardor. These two and their enigmatic connection to each other will prove to be Tess's hardest lesson of all. "Sweetbitter"is a story of discovery, enchantment, and the power of what remains after disillusionment."


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Author: Breanne A. Kirsch
Number of Pages: 277 pages
Published Date: 28 Jan 2014
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Publication Country: Jefferson, NC, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780786474912
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